Dutch runner is rewarded for her 3 Olympic medals in the area of a week at the 2024 Games in Paris, where Tebogo won the males’s 200m gold.
Dutch marathoner Sifan Hassan and Botswanan sprinter Letsile Tebogo, both of whom took gold at the Paris Olympics, have actually been called Athletes of the Year by World Athletics.
Hassan, who likewise won the out-of-stadium award, was rewarded for her unbelievable efficiency in the French capital which extended beyond the marathon and to the track.
In the area of 7 days, she won 2 bronze medals in the 5,000 metres, having likewise run a heat and the 10,000-metre, and an incredible gold in the marathon when she outsprinted Ethiopia’s then world record holder Tigist Assefa to win by simply 3 seconds.
“I never ever believed I was going to win this one,” stated Hassan after getting her award in Monaco on Sunday. “This year was insane. It’s not just me– all the professional athletes have actually been incredible.”
Tebogo got his award after ending up being the very first African Olympic champ in the 200m, crossing the line at the Stade de France in 19.46 seconds, edging out preferred American professional athletes Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles.
“This implies a lot,” stated Tebogo who doubled up with the males’s track award. “It’s not almost the group that is around you, there are a great deal of fans out there that actually desire us to win something fantastic for the continent.
“It was a genuine surprise to hear my name due to the fact that I didn’t anticipate this.”
The World Athletics likewise chose to reward lots of other professional athletes who shone at the Olympics.
Swedish pole-vaulter Armand Duplantis won the males’s field classification after an unbeaten 2024, winning Olympic gold and setting a brand-new world record of 6.26 metres.
Male Field Athlete of the Year Winner
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Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh was the winner in the females’s occasion, enhancing the high dive world record to 2.10 m at the age of simply 22 and likewise winning Olympic gold in Paris.
In addition to Tebogo, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was rewarded in the track classification for beating her own world record in the 400m difficulties, clocking 50.37 seconds to win gold in Paris, while males’s Olympic marathon champ Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia was offered the Out of Stadium award.
Ethiopian steeplechaser Sembo Almayew and Italian long jumper Mattia Furlani were provided the Rising Star awards.
Throughout the event, a minute was required to keep in mind in 2015’s Men’s Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world record-holder who passed away in a roadway mishap in February.
World Athletics Awards 2024
Women’s World Athlete of the Year: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Guys’s World Athlete of the Year: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Women’s track: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
Women’s field: Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
Women’s Out of Stadium: Sifan Hassan (NED)
Guy’s track: Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
Guy’s field: Armand Duplantis (SWE)
Guy’s Out of Stadium: Tamirat Tola (ETH)
Women’s Rising Star: Sembo Almayew (ETH)
Male’s Rising Star: Mattia Furlani (ITA)